Women Bid To Buy Haymarket Theatre As A Female-Led ArtsSpace

The Bossy collective is fundraising to buy the Theatre Royal Haymarket. (Photograph:
Damian Crook)

A group of women from the world of the performing arts has
launched a campaign to buy a West End theatre with the aim of making
it a venue that showcases female-led work.

The Bossy
collective are behind a 15,000-member Facebook group set up in 2016 as a
supportive space for women in the creative industries. Now, in the wake of the
#MeToo movement and continuing allegations of sexual misconduct in the creative
and other industries, the group, has founded a campaign to buy the
Theatre Royal Haymarket.

The lease for the theatre, venue for many major plays including
Oscar Wilde premieres, went on sale last month. The asking price is not
public but the Bossy GoFundMe target is set at £3m. By Saturday it had raised
£7,561 from 384 donors.

Click here for the full article published on TheGuardian.com by Elle Ayres on February 10, 2018.